2018 Year End Longlist, Part 9

Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu [Awesome Tapes From Africa]



Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore - Ghost Forests [Three Lobed]



The White Blinds - Get To Steppin' [F-Spot Records]



Madeline Kenney - Perfect Shapes [Carpark]



Snail Mail - Lush [Matador]



Us, Today - Computant [it.me.music]



Uniting of Opposites - Ancient Lights [Tru Thoughts]



Hollie Cook - Vessel of Love [Merge]



Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Close But No Cigar [Colemine]



Chip Wickham - Shamal Wind [Lovemonk]
AND HERE'S WHERE WE GET INTO THE ENTRIES THAT AREN'T ON BANDCAMP...

Scolari / Cavalca / Scolari - Natural Impulse [Principal Records]

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Lucy Dacus - Historian [Matador]



Yo La Tengo - There's A Riot Going On [Matador]



Robyn - Honey [Konichiwa]

2018 Year End Longlist, Part 8

The Sorority - Pledge [The Sorority Sound]



Victime - la femme taupe [Michel Records]



Dan Weiss - Starebaby [Pi Recordings]



Foxwarren - Foxwarren [Anti- / Arts & Crafts]



The Beths - Future Me Hates Me [Carpark]



Beach House - 7 [Sub Pop]



Balun - Prisma Tropical [Good Child Music]



Mary Melford's Snowy Egret - The Other Side Of Air [Firehouse 12]



Kutiman - Don't Hold Onto The Clouds [Siyal]



Hearts & Minds - Eletrordiance [Astral Spirits]



Quin Kirchner - The Other Side Of Time [Astral Spirits]



The Young Pixels - Fever of Becoming [Independent]



serpentwithfeet - Soil [Tri Angle]



Georgia Anne Muldrow - Overload [Brainfeeder]

2018 Year End Longlist, Part 7

Dowdelin - Carnaval Odyssey [Underdog]



Onom Agemo & The Disco Jumpers - Magic Polaroid [Agogo]



Lea Bertucci - Metal Aether [NNA]



Fjer - You Again [Quintic]



Joseph Shabason - Anne [Independent]



Christine Fellows - Roses on the Vine [Vivat Virtute]



June West - June West [Broken Circles]



Joey Dosik - Inside Voice [Secretly Canadian]



Caoilfhionn Rose - Awaken [Gondwana]



Astral Swans - Strange Prison [Saved By Vinyl]



Beatchild & the Slakadeliqs - Heavy Rockin' Steady [BBE]



Bernice - Puff LP: In the Air Without A Shape [Arts & Crafts]



Birthday Boy & Trish - Joseph [Bastard Jazz]



Bonjay - Lush Life [Mysteries of Trade]



Freak Heat Waves - Beyond XXXL [Telephone Explosion]

2018 Year End Longlist, Part 6

Wild Nothing - Indigo [SEE Music]



Neighborhood of Make Believe - Two Nighttimes [Five Kill]



Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie [Dead Oceans]



Tommy Guerrero - The Road to Nowhere [Too Good]



Thabang Tabane - Matjale [Mushroom Hour Half Hour]



Daniel Crawford - Revolution [Independent]



Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horse [Sargent House]



Jake Mason Trio - Stranger in the Mirror [Soul Messin']



Wayne Horvitz - The Snowghost Sessions [Songlines]



Fatima - And Yet It's All Love [Eglo Records]



Sister Sparrow - Gold [Thirty Tigers]



The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra - Naming & Blaming [HopeSt. Recordings]



Charles Bradley - Black Velvet [Dunham/Daptone]



Vivian Leva - Time Is Everything [Free Dirt]



Julien Dyne - Teal [Soundway]

2018 Year End Longlist, Part 5

Tunng - Songs You Make At Night [Full Time Hobby]



Leisure Centre - Mind Full [Hope Street Recordings]



Dentist - Night Swimming [Cleopatra Records]



Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs [Sub Pop]



Whitney Ballen - You're A Shooting Star, I'm A Sinking Ship [Father/Daughter]



Low - Double Negative [Sub Pop]



Conner Youngblood - Cheyenne [Counter]



Glenn Jones - The Giant Who Ate Himself [Thrill Jockey]



Mitski - Be the Cowboy [Dead Oceans]



Ava Luna - Moon 2 [Western Vinyl]



Jonathan Something - Outlandish Poetica [Solitaire Recordings]



Fred Thomas - Aftering [Polyvinyl]



Traps PS - New Chants [Innovative Leisure]



Thalia Zedek Band - Fighting Season [Thrill Jockey]



This Will Destroy You - New Others Part One [Dark Operative]

2018 Year End Longlist, Part 4

Neko Case - Hell-On [Anti-]



Marisa Anderson - Cloud Corner [Thrill Jockey]



Rosehardt - Songs in the Key of Solitude [Independent]



Shawn Lee & the Soul Surfers - Shawn Lee & the Soul Surfers [Independent]



Hilary Woods - Colt [Sacred Bones]



Oracle Hysterical - Hecuba [National Sawdust Tracks]



Natalie Evans - Better At Night [Small Pond]



Kamaal Williams - The Return [Black Focus Records]



Blood Wine or Honey - Fear & Celebration [Do Right! Music]



Chancha Via Circuito - Bienaventuranza [Wonderwheel Recordings]



Makaya McCraven - Where We Come From [International Anthem]



Boyhood - Bad Mantras [Independent]



Remember Sports - Slow Buzz [Father/Daughter]



Alekesam - Sound Proof Heart [Alpha Pup]



Hop Along- Bark Your Head Off, Dog [Saddle Creek]

2018 Year End Longlist, Part 3

Part 1 and Part 2 can be found by clicking on them or scrolling back.

The Philharmonik - The Philharmonik [Sol Life]



Cavalier - Innate [Alpha Pup]



The Sea and Cake - Any Day [Thrill Jockey]



Deva Mahal - Run Deep [Independent]



Anteloper - Kudu [International Anthem]



Jay Phelps - Free as the Birds [Ropeadope]



Middle Blue - Love Chords [Ropeadope]



BOYS - Rest In Peace [PNKSLM]



The Amazing - In Transit [Partisan]



Housepanther - Club Soda Lows [Independent]



Sarah Louise - Deeper Woods [Thrill Jockey]



Winter - Etheriality [Org Music]



Peggy Lee - Echo Painting [Independent]



ABIAH - ABIAH Sings NINA [Independent]



L Con - Insecurities In Being [Independent]

14KT - "The Power of Same ft. Muhsinah"

We interrupt my slew of looking back at 2018 posts to bring you a little forward facing music. RR mainstays First Word Records have announced the addition of Michigan / LA beatmaker and producer 14KT to their ranks and today (December 14th) is the release of the first single from his 2019-due debut IAMABEENIE.

"The Power of Same" features urgent, yearning vocals from Muhsinah whom I haven't heard before but have now flagged for future reference. No surprise she came recommended by Tall Black Guy who put her in touch with 14KT.

If the full-length features more of this jazzy production, soulful vocals and insistent beats, there's a strong chance it'll be among my rear-facing posts at the end of 2019.

2018 Year End Longlist, Part 2

If you missed the explainer, that's at the header of Part 1. Without further ado, here's part 2.

Dabrye - Three/Three [Ghostly International]

Pearl Charles - Sleepless Dreamer [Kanine]

Soccer Mommy - Clean [Fat Possum]

Quiet Dawn - Human Being - The Short Story of the Reed [First Word]

HURRY - Every Little Thought [LameO]



Joan As Policewoman - Damned Devotion [PIAS Recordings]



Anna & Elizabeth - The Invisible Comes To Us [Smithsonian Folkways]



Karavan Sarai - Painted Sands [Electrofone]



Amen Dunes - Freedom [Sacred Bones]



Emapea - Zoning Out Volume One [Cold Busted]



Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar [Ninja Tune]



Black Milk - Fever [Mass Appeal]



Adrian Younge - Adrian Younge presents: Voices of Gemma [Linear Labs]



royceBIRTH - Genealogy [Independent]



Dos Santos - Logos [International Anthem]

2018 Year End Longlist, Part 1

It's that time of year again - actually that time of year seems to arrive sooner every year - and I'm in the process of whittling down my longlist to arrive at my Top 20 for my FOURTEENTH ANNUAL (!!) countdown show on UMFM on NYE. As I narrow the field I'll start sharing what I considered but didn't make the cut and due to a particularly LONG longlist, I'm just going to post a track from each without any commentary. There's no order to what I'll be listing in each entry, but some of these song selections might end up on my Top 20 songs even if the album didn't make the Top 20 as a whole. Hope you make some discoveries as you work your way through the list.

Curtis Roush - Cosmic Campfire Music [Modern Outsider]


Anna Burch - Quit the Curse [Polyvinyl]


Gizelle Smith - Ruthless Day [Jalapeno]


Kirsten Ludwig - We Get It Now [Oscar St. Records]


The Brothers Nylon - Bitches Cold Brew [Resistant Mindz]


Eric Chenaux - Slowly Paradise [Constellation]


Imarhan - Temet [City Slang]


Jeff Rosenstock - POST- [Polyvinyl]


The James Hunter Six - Whatever It Takes [Daptone]


Calexico - The Thread That Keeps Us [Anti-]


Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - Dirt [Paper Bag]


MAST - Thelonious Sphere Monk [World Galaxy]


Typhoon - Offerings [Roll Call]


Superchunk - What A Time To Be Alive [Merge]


Palm - Rock Island [Carpark]

Hackney Colliery Band - "Superhero Disco (The Reflex Version)"

Early Christmas present from label Wah Wah 45s as they approach their twentieth anniversary. Hackney Colliery Band are longtime RR faves and it's nice to hear the Reflex version of "Superhero Disco" as part of this mammoth (26 songs!) compilation of nuggets from the UK label remixed, re-worked or otherwise reconsidered. Also featuring tracks from the likes of Henri-Pierre Noel, Dele Sosimi and the Gene Dudley Group among others, this is a nice taste of what the label consistently cooks up, but with a few extra spices thrown in.